Cardiff could still come up with an agreed repayment structure - so the club avoid a winding-up order just days before their lucrative FA Cup fifth round tie with holders Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Yet I am sure my kids would not be ready to step up and do the job of windingup all our affairs if I left this life without warning, as Bruce just did.
Windingup for the government, defence minister Lord Astor of Hever said Remembrance Day did not just mark the two world wars but "the loss and debt we feel to all those who have died in the service of their country".